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♫ Unwilling to take part in something improper, how could I predict things would turn out against my wishes? ♫
♫ The flower in center of my heart has withered, time cannot turn itself back. ♫
♫ My memories are whirling and twirling, the pain is only in the depths of my heart. ♫
♫ My only wish is to live without regrets, and fly far away with the flowers’ fragrance. ♫
♫ A bottle of rice wine, a body covered in dust and ashes. ♫
♫ Memories go back and forth, a life without regrets. ♫
♫ From spring to autumn, life comes and goes. Is it right to be vain? ♫
♫ I’m waiting for the flowers to return and bloom again, intoxicating me. ♫
♫ Sincerely hoping that my lifespan is no longer withering away ♫
♫ I’m waiting for the flowers to return and bloom again, intoxicating me. ♫
♫ Sincerely hoping that my lifespan is no longer withering away ♫
♫ I want to go back to savor the aftertaste of the wine again. ♫
♫ In my memories, life comes and goes. I realize clearly in my heart. ♫
♫ I want to go back to savor the aftertaste of the wine again. ♫
Ashes of Love
Episode 49
How is my Father Emperor?
His Majesty Heavenly Emperor has already died.
He used up his lifetime of cultivation
to store your soul into the Greater Truth Phoenix Feather and handed it to me.
What about the Heavenly Realm?
Run Yu has now become the emperor of Heavenly Realm.
He also forced Auntie to kill herself.
Xu Feng, I have wronged you.
I couldn't face you anymore.
Your Majesty...I saw King Gucheng earlier leading a troop of demon army towards Abyss of Anxiety.
Oh, no, Fire Deity is in danger.
Liu Ying and Mu Ci go to the Abyss of Anxiety.
There is a secret path there. Take Xu Feng and immediately leave that place.
- Secret path? - I know where it is.
Okay. You go to Abyss of Anxiety. I'll go hinder King Gucheng.
Hey, Royal Father, please be careful.
Let's go.
Which direction?
Just in front.
What's wrong?
When I was thrown by King Gucheng to the Abyss of Anxiety,
I got surrounded by grudging souls and almost died here.
Afterwards, my black eyes got activated and that pushed the grudging souls to retreat.
I discovered this secret path and was able to escape.
That's why, you know about this secret path.
Correct.
Sorry. I didn't know that this place would make you remember your painful past.
It's fine. They are now in the past.
Don't worry. I won't let anyone hurt you again.
Okay. Let's go.
Xu Feng.
I'm fine.
Someone is here. Just wait here first.
- How come it's you two? - I still haven't made you pay for what happened to Mu Ci. I—
More important matters first.
Your Highness.
Brother Feng! It's really you!
King Gucheng has already learned about your rebirth and is currently leading his men here to surround you.
Royal Father asked me to immediately take you out of here.
Demon King!
Demon King, a fire phoenix flew up the River of Forgetfulness earlier.
I was just leading my men here to investigate it. Did you also come here for the same reason?
I've long heard of rumors
that Fire Deity Xu Feng still has one soul left in this world.
I just didn't expect that he's hiding here in the Demon Realm.
Earlier, the phoenix flew up the sky. I fear that he has already been revived.
If we offend the Heavenly Realm because of this,
won't that be a great disaster for our Demon Realm?
If that's the case, I'm willing to assist Demon King in investigating the whereabouts of Fire Deity.
For Fire Deity to be able to hide here in the Demon Realm, there must be someone helping him.
Once I find out who that person is,
I surely will not spare him.
- Search. - Yes!
- Search! - Yes!
Search carefully! Hurry!
- Go there and look! - Yes!
Your Majesty.
How is her injury?
Your Highness, Water Deity was hurt by Hell Flame.
Hell Flame can drain one's primordial spirit.
Up to when do you plan to keep hurting yourself?
I surely will do my best to save her.
- When will she recover? - It varies individually.
The shortest will be at least half a year quiet recuperation.
Leave first.
Yes.
I know...you finally were able to revive him.
You won. Are you satisfied?
Sorry.
Phoenix, sorry.
Phoenix...
Demon King now has been searching for Your Highness.
I can only let you hide here for a while.
I'm not some prince anymore.
I've caused you to offend Run Yu and King Gucheng.
I really feel very sorry.
You have said it too seriously.
Although I'm not that talented, I still am a king here in Demon Realm.
I'm not under the jurisdiction of Heavenly Realm.
It's just that this King Gucheng has always been mean and suspicious.
It has nothing to do with you.
Your Highness, what are your future plans?
I have never expected
that in this vast six realms,
there will be one day that I won't know where I should go.
I have a suggestion that I don't know if I should say or not.
King Biancheng, just say it.
For thousands of years, our Demon Realm
kept having internal strife.
Always getting oppressed by the Heavenly Realm.
Demon King Gucheng harbors evil intentions and is harsh and merciless.
I fear that he'll bring our Demon Realm annihilation.
But you are an upright person with remarkable talent.
If you can replace King Gucheng in ruling the Demon Realm,
you surely will bring our realm peace, strength, and prosperity.
Moreover, in this six realms, only the Demon King
can rival the Heavenly Emperor.
If you want to seek vengeance—
I appreciate your good intention.
Since time immemorial, our realms have been of different paths. I fear that I won't be able to fulfill such an important duty.
Brother Feng, why must you be so humble?
Are you looking down on our Demon Realm?
Don't misunderstand.
I never had any intention of belittling your realm.
It's just that I'm not part of your realm.
I'm not qualified to inherit the Demon King position.
You don't ask where a hero comes from. Here in Demon Realm, we always talk with our skills.
The strong and capable gets the throne.
That's right. It's also not hard for outsiders to join.
You just need to obtain the blood offered by our Great Elder King Qingcheng.
Heavenly Realm is after all my homeland that gave birth and raised me.
How can I change side
and point the sword in my hand towards my fellow immortals?
Everyone has their ambition. I have no intention of getting involved in your internal strife. Hope you can understand.
Hey, Brother Feng, you've misunderstood! We're not borrowing you're strength to bring down King Gucheng!
Looks like the Heaven don't want to help my Demon Realm.
Isn't Brother Feng too stubborn?
Don't forget that Xu Feng was once the God of War of Heavenly Realm.
He has repeatedly killed demons to guard the Heavenly Realm.
But now, you're asking him to turn his bow towards his homeland.
Whoever it is, it'll be hard for him to get past that obstacle in his heart.
His parents died. His brother turned against him.
Even the woman he loved the most betrayed him.
What's good about yearning for a Heavenly Realm like that?
You can't say it like that. In his heart,
he still treats himself as a a member of the Heavenly Realm.
The mountains and rivers are still there, but the past family and lover
have suddenly become his enemies. He's unable to get past that obstacle in his heart.
How do you think he can endure it?
He is a very proud man, yet he had to go through such a disaster.
Don't know if he can get over it.
That's right.
Where are you going?
What's that?
This is crimson sandrock. It will be a good medicine for Brother Feng once refined.
You kept saying Brother Feng this and that all day.
I never saw you treat other people that well.
No conscience. Was I not good to you?
Anyway, it's not better than how you treat your Brother Feng.
Stop right there!
Mu Ci, are you jealous?
Don't go.
- Get down. - I don't want to.
I'm tired. Just carry me.
You are now the commanding general of Biancheng.
Aren't you afraid that your subordinate soldiers will see you sticking on me like this?
I just want to walk with you like this.
Stick to your body forever.
Fine, but don't hug my neck too tightly.
Why are you crying? Am I that heavy?
How long has it been?
Not long. The weather is quite dry today.
It will be fine after a few days.
Liu Ying, as the princess of the Demon Realm,
it's so inappropriate to be always crying.
Promise me that
no matter how long I can still live, in my remaining days,
we both must always be happy. Okay?
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Child, live well.
Xu'er, live well.
Father Emperor... Mother Empress...
Don't go... Don't leave me behind...
Father Emperor, Mother Empress...
Xu'er, live well.
Father Emperor, Mother Empress,
you both are gone.
You left me all alone in this world.
Everything is too heavy.
I don't know how to face them.
I really can't bear them.
♫ Unwilling to take part in something improper, how could I predict things would turn out against my wishes? ♫
Your Highness!
♫ I wish to wash away my vanity and brush off the dust and ashes that cover my body ♫
♫ so that I can share a bottle of rice wine again and chat with you for an intoxicating lifetime. ♫
♫ Unwilling to take part in something improper, how could I predict things would turn out against my wishes? ♫
♫ The flower in center of my heart has withered, time cannot turn itself back. ♫
They say that the phoenix flowers in the Mortal Realm bloom twice a year.
Once when fate comes, once when it leaves. I used magic
to let the Phoenix flowers here never wither. Do you like it?
Fate will eventually leave, flowers will eventually wither and return to the ground.
Hence, I can't really say if I like it or not.
Say, if you don't like these beautiful flowers, what do you like?
- It was clearly you— -Oh, I know already.
What you like the most is punishing people!
♫ a life without regrets. ♫
♫ From spring to autumn, life comes and goes. Is it right to be vain? ♫
♫ I’m waiting for the flowers to return and bloom again, intoxicating me. ♫
♫ Unwilling to take part in something improper, how could I predict things would turn out against my wishes? ♫
♫ The flower in center of my heart has withered, time cannot turn itself back. ♫
♫ My memories are whirling and twirling, the pain is only in the depths of my heart. ♫
Mother Empress...
♫ A bottle of rice wine, a body covered in dust and ashes. ♫
[Past Virtuous Hall]
♫ I’m waiting for the flowers to return and bloom again, intoxicating me.. ♫
♫ Sincerely hoping that my lifespan is no longer withering away ♫
♫ I’m waiting for the flowers to return and bloom again, intoxicating me. ♫
♫ Sincerely hoping that my lifespan is no longer withering away ♫
♫ I want to go back to savor the aftertaste of the wine again. ♫
♫ A bottle of rice wine, a body covered in dust and ashes. ♫
[Memorial Tablet of Tai Wei]
Father Emperor.
♫ I’m waiting for the flowers to return and bloom again, intoxicating me.. ♫
Mother Empress?
♫ A bottle of rice wine, a body covered in dust and ashes. ♫
♫ Memories go back and forth, a life without regrets. ♫
Your Majesty, the enchantment of Past Virtuous Hall has been broken.
Technically speaking, no one else can break that enchantment other than you.
It's him.
He's back.
Xu Feng. Don't search anymore.
My Mother Empress served the Heavenly Realm as an empress for several thousands of years.
How can you insult her posthumous reputation?
Worthy to enjoy the Past Virtuous Hall? She isn't qualified to.
You don't have the right to slander Mother Empress' achievements.
Achievements? Father Emperor and your Mother Empress deceived the public for thousands of years.
What achievement is there to talk about?
What they brought the six realms are just never ending killing
and oppression with their supreme power. If not because I considered the general picture,
Father Emperor's memorial tablet isn't also worthy to be placed here.
What right do you have to criticize the achievements and mistakes of Father Emperor and Mother Empress?!
Even if Mother Empress did a lot of mistakes, she was still your legitimate mother.
She raised you for several thousands of years. You killed your father and forced your mother to kill herself.
Is your conscience really clear?
I really am blind for treating an ungrateful,
ruthless, and pretentious person like you
as my older brother.
I don't have the right?
Then, do you?
How did Father utilize political trickery? How did Tu Yao act as a tyrant?
How many innocent lives of the Six Realms died in their hands?
You know exactly
how I suffered through those thousands of years.
In this current situation,
why assume dignified airs
in order to cover up your wolf-like ambitions?
Xu Feng,
for these few thousand years, you were the favored son in the Heavenly Realm
under Father and your mother's protection
with so much ease.
Did you ever truly open your eyes
to see what the Heavenly Realm
was really like?
Did you ever consider why the former Water Immortal was willing to marry Jin Mi to me,
and not you? Why did I,
a treacherous villain, was able to successfully
ascend the throne by leading a rebellion?
Why did nobody in this giant Heavenly Realm grieve
after your mother jumped off the Linyuan Stage?
Let me tell you the reason. It's not because I'm manipulative and autocratic.
Instead, it's because of them!
They went against the tide, and they forsook their friends and allies.
Nonsense. You're lying!
I'm the heavenly emperor. The entire Heavenly Realm belongs to me.
And of course, Jin Mi is included.
And you? You have nothing. What reason do I have to lie to you?
As of today, the Heavenly Realm is in political and social peace. Everything is going well.
Jin Mi is also doing well. This place doesn't need you. Why did you come back?
Stop talking! Don't mention her to me again.
Xu Feng, you're already dead.
I've even prepared a ceremonious funeral for you.
Why did you have to disappoint me,
and come back?
Why did you come back to invite humiliation upon yourself?
Fine, then.
Since Jin Mi and I were able to work together to kill you once,
we can kill you another time.
Remember everything that you said today.
I will make you regret it one day.
I can't wait.
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These are your former men, the ones you trained and experienced life and death with.
Now, they have all abandoned the dark for the light.
"How can you say you don’t have clothes? I’ll share my robe with you."
Very well!
I, Xu Feng, congratulate everyone
for finding a new master
and rising to higher heights.
The unparalleled, blazing God of War.
Today, show the Six Realms
how you will kill your older brother and fight your former comrades.
Soldiers, listen to my command!
Xu Feng trespassed into the Heavenly Realm's sacred ground.
Even death cannot atone for this offense. Arrest him!
Stop!
Don't come closer!
Mi'er.
The person who killed you was me.
I am the source of your grudge. Take it out on me.
Water Immortal,
your love for Heavenly Emperor is so deep.
You are willing to risk your life to protect him.
However, I wonder if Heavenly Emperor's affection for you
are the same.
Leave!
Water Immortal, have you seen too many operas?
While protecting Heavenly Emperor, you still remember to kiss up to me.
What kind of show is this? "Capture and Release Seven Times"?
Mi'er, hurry and come here.
I'm begging you! Leave!
Don't come closer!
Let her go, and I will spare your life.
Don't come any closer!
Hurry and leave.
Our tree
has died.
After him!
Yes, Your Majesty!
No!
Your Majesty, you just said you would spare him, right?
Your Majesty, don't break your promise.
I didn't promise you anything just now. Even the Heavenly Emperor's patience has a limit.
Don't push your limit over and over again.
If you don't let him go today,
I will die with him.
Don't mess around.
Mi'er.
If you come any closer, I will kill myself.
I will do as I promised. Your Majesty, please spare him.
♫ My left-hand’s finger touches the moon, my right hand is selecting Red Threads ♫
♫ to bestow upon you and I our desired and predestined love. ♫
♫ In the moonlight. ♫
His Majesty has given his orders! Kill him!
Are you trying to rebel?
Immortal Taisi, if not because His Highness values our former relationship,
you would not even be allowed to speak today.
Your Highness, in the past you conquered Tao Wu,
and you saved me from the mouth of Tao Wu.
Your Highness, please go ahead.
During the third great war between the Heavenly and Demon Realms, I fell into the River of Forgetfulness.
If not for Your Highness, I would be a cripple right now.
Your Highness, please go ahead.
Your Highness once saved my brother from the Abyss of Anxiety.
Your Highness, please go ahead.
As we part ways today,
Your Highness, take care!
I came back today to pay respect to my parents.
Brothers, thank you for stretching the rules for me.
I will thank you all,
but we walk different paths.
Let's severe our ties here today. May our fate end here.
If we see each other again on the battlefield, do not have mercy.
Your Highness!
So many people couldn't stop him?
How did Fire Deity escape in one piece?
If not because somebody let him go,
how could Fire Deity have escaped so easily?
Your Majesty, I was the one who let His Second Highness go. Please punish me.
Po Jun, why did you disobey my order?
Your Majesty, in the past,
His Second Highness saved my life twice on the battlefield.
I owe His Second Highness a huge favor.
Po Jun, you are abusing your powers for personal gains.
Where did you place Your Majesty? What about the laws of Heavenly Realm?
I understand my crime. Your Majesty, please punish me!
Your Majesty, we have committed the same crime!
I already said that when I use a man, I don't care about his past.
I will only care about his virtue and skills. You people owed Xu Feng debts of gratitude.
You guys just repaid him through another means. For being so loyal and righteous,
I admire that.
I will not punish you for the matter today.
But this kind of atmosphere shouldn't be kept long.
The Heavenly Realm has its laws.
Hope everyone will not do it again.
Strictly fulfill your duty and loyally serve the Heavenly Realm.
Your Majesty is magnanimous! I will strictly follow the low and your command!
Rise!
Thank you, Your Majesty.
Po Jun, you're the Court Commanding General.
I've already entrusted you my life and everything in my possession.
Although he saved you twice,
this debt should be cleared now, right?
Or else,
you should be owing me a favor then.
I am muddled. I won't do it again.
Deity.
Is His Majesty inside?
His Majesty gave orders that he isn't going to see anyone. Please go back.
Deity...
Your Majesty!
Xu Feng just came to pay respect to his parents.
Please forgive people when possible. You already have the Heavenly Realm,
but Xu Feng has lost everything.
I beg you, Your Majesty!
Your Majesty! I beg you!
Deity...
Deity, just go back first.
Deity.
Your Majesty.
Your Majesty, Water Deity is outside.
I'm not seeing her.
But...
I belittled his prestige in the Heavenly Realm.
Although he's now alone,
he has the thing that I cared about the most, human heart.
Today, he caused a ruckus in Past Virtuous Hall.
He was able to come and go as if there were no one around.
Even Po Jun
led the group in letting him off. If this continues,
are the millions of Heavenly Soldiers and Heavenly Generals going to successively change sides?
Your Majesty, you're over worrying.
If Po Jun and the others have intentions to rebel,
they all should have followed Second Highness earlier.
They were personally trained and promoted by His Highness Fire Deity.
Debt of gratitude for being guided. Going through life and death situations together.
It's natural that they have a special bond.
What you said is right.
It's also time to give them a closure.
Kuang Lu, leave first. Let me think.
Yes.
Mi'er, in your eyes,
in your heart, there is only Xu Feng.
And no matter what I do for you,
even if I ended up badly battered,
even if I've lost half of my lifespan for you,
you couldn't see it.
You all are betraying me one by one.
Each one going against me because of him.
Since that's the case,
don't blame me for being heartless then.
This Spiritual Fire Beads is a love token given by Father Emperor to Mother Empress.
Mother Empress loved it the most when she was still alive. Let these beads, this place, this scenery,
be her tomb.
Your Highness, please contain your grief.
For a bystander like you,
what kind of person is my Mother Empress?
Is she really as they say...
...a very evil and unforgivable person?
Your Highness, the dead is gone. Stop making a fuss about it.
Looks like what he said is true.
In the past, I grew up under the protection of Father Emperor and Mother Empress.
I felt that being the supreme noble rulers of Heavenly Realm,
their commands were always right.
It goes without saying that everyone should submit to them.
I never doubted that
nor did any self-reflection. But from the looks of it now,
my parents committed mistakes.
As their son, I never dissuaded them.
Now, they suffered disaster.
I have an undeniable responsibility for it.
Your Highness, don't blame yourself. The mistakes of the past generation
shouldn't be atoned by you.
In this world, no one is good or evil for no reason at all.
When I was a secret agent in Zifang Cloud Palace before,
I frequently saw Heavenly Empress alone by herself
and crying.
She was in so much grief. If not because I saw it with my own eyes,
who would have thought that
a supreme being who has such great might and in such high position
is just a pitiful and lamentable woman
in the end.
For Mother Empress to have become like that,
Father Emperor is to be blamed.
I too am responsible for it.
When she was alive, I never properly had a meal with her.
I also never had a good chat with her.
Now,
the child desires to take care,
but the loved one is gone.
When I returned to the Heavenly Realm today,
things are the same but the people are now different.
While facing Run Yu,
I suddenly felt severe despair.
He was so in the right and very confident,
while I...didn't have any room to refute his words.
Even the remaining dignity of Father Emperor and Mother Empress,
I was unable to defend it.
That place has become so unfamiliar.
It's not anymore the homeland that gave birth and raised me.
Even the phoenix tree...
Now, I'm like you. I have no more home to return to.
Your Highness, you said it wrong.
Before, when I was ordered by Heavenly Empress to monitor the former Water Deity,
I accidentally heard him say these words out of extreme emotions.
Now, I finally understood it.
What words?
Where my heart settles is where my homeland is.
Where my heart settles...
...is where my homeland is.
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♫ My left hand holds the ground, my right hand holds the sky. ♫
♫ Lightning bolts erupt out of my palm print and go in ten directions. ♫
♫ I quickly turn time into years. ♫
♫ In three thousand lifetimes, I’ve seen it all. ♫
♫ My left hand picks flowers, my right hand wields a sword. ♫
♫ Between my brows, an entire ten thousand years’ of snow has fallen. ♫
♫ One teardrop. ♫
♫ That is who I am. ♫
♫ My left-hand’s finger touches the moon, my right hand is selecting Red Threads ♫
♫ to bestow upon you and I our desired and predestined love. ♫
♫ In the moonlight. ♫
♫ You and I. ♫
♫ My left hand transforms into feathers, my right hand becomes scales. ♫
♫ Some of my lives are spent in the clouds, some are in the forests. ♫
♫ I’m willing to follow you and become a speck of dust ♫
♫ in order to emerge in this mortal life. ♫
♫ My left hands picks you up, my right hand lets go of you. ♫
♫ When I clasp my palms together, you are completely drawn back into my heart. ♫
♫ In the time it takes for one incense stick to burn. ♫
♫ You and I, we become inseparable. ♫